Photos: Israel concludes immigration flights for Ethiopian Jews

Israeli authorities have completed what they say is the final large airlift of Ethiopian immigrants, culminating decades of efforts to bring in the remnants of an ancient community to the Jewish state. Over 400 Ethiopian Jews arrived on a flight from Ethiopia on August 28, 2013 at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, the last of a series of monthly flights that were part of Operation Dove's Wings, an Israeli government initiative to bring to Israel the remainder of the Falash Mura, members of the Ethiopian Jewish community whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity during the 19th and 20th century.